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Wow what a difference a week with sunshine can make
Or 3 days. Is it too late to cover brassicas? Something is picked at my pak choy
Wow what a difference a week with sunshine can make
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@Charlotte Sickels and I am home and it’s raining again
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A couple days of sun made a big difference
Taking a moment to take it all in
I have been frustrated with the cool/cold wet weather we’ve had the last 6 weeks. So I was flipping through my photos. And I am amazed at the transformation! Here is where we started in April and where we are now - 2 months later
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Taking a moment to take it all in
I will either thank myself or kick myself
As a way of building my soil, I added compost, but since I didn’t have enough and ran out of energy after shovelling by 4 yards, I opted to rake it into permanent beds with it the main garden. Since I also purchased raised beds and soil - ran out of budget to be able to get a worthy amount of compost. Instead, I purchased some cover crop. $20 in seeds goes further. It’s a little patchy but it’s growing. I have oats and crimson clover. The oats I will crimp in July and it will die off before flowering and I will leave it and let it compost. The crimson clover is *supposed* to winter kill. I am currently doubting myself, haha did I just create a weed situation for myself? I guess we’ll know next year. I am also going to throw down winter peas in late October for an early spring cover crop - I think.
I will either thank myself or kick myself
1 like • 17d
Cheap mulch if it works lol
Progress on the Iris
Getting some beds established and transplanting one of the 42,000 crepe Myrtle’s we have wild on the property.
Progress on the Iris
1 like • 17d
It’s so cute!
Taking advantage of the rain
We filled all our tanks. The ground is soft so I started my first strawberry patch, saturated ground made easy to dig up the sod. I want to broadfork this when it’s a little dryer and then fill it with garden mix. Will do a 2nd one tomorrow.
Taking advantage of the rain
1 like • 19d
After a night of rain, strawberry bed 2 is done. It will host my snap dragons this year, as the plants I had planned to transplant are in full bloom. So I will wait on those. I will enjoy the berries. I have another berry cage that will move over here
1 like • 18d
Straw mulch added and then I planted the strawberry crowns finally, it started to pour before I got a picture 🌧️ snap dragons are also in. Unless I find a home for the remaining tomatoes, all transplants are done. Next up potatoes … but we can’t work the soil it’s soooo wet. That bed didn’t get compost this spring. So very silty. Debating if I hunt down more straw and do a no dig garden instead.
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Noella R.
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